Matthew
Foster, 28,
left, and
his brother
Jeff, late30-something,
show off
the cornucopia
of stuff in
Man Cave
Artifacts,
Richfield
Springs,
opened
in midMarch.
In midApril, they
opened
Man Cave
Antiques
in Fly
Creek.
Above, a
lad from
West
Winfield
visiting
with his
dad tries
out Matt’s
1979
HarleyDavidson,
on display
there.

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Mystery writer Lesley Diehl of Morris has
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esley Diehl has a lot of blood on her
hands. Or rather, her pages.
The retired SUNY Oneonta psychology professor and mystery writer just
released the sequel to “Deadly Draught,”
titled “Poisoned Pairings,” in paperback
on May 1, and in April, released the ebook
“Angel Sleuth.” This winter, she has an-

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other sequel due on bookshelves, the followup to 2011s “Dumpster Dying,” titled
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Then, Baseball; Now, Man Cave Stuff
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with his friends.”
In that dedicated area,
there’s – for lack of a better
word – stuff. Much of it is
‘60s vintage, featuring garish colors of the day. Much
of it is car-related or beerrelated.
Matthew, 28, describes
his apartment as a man cave,
(although given that he’s
engaged, who knows for
how long.)

And, about a year ago,
the two brothers – you may
know Jeff as proprietor of
Legends Are Forever on
Cooperstown’s Main Street
– got talking about stuff,
and concluded they had a
business opportunity.
The older brother – upper-30-something – was
able to capture the baseball memorabilia craze of
the past 20 years. Today,
though, baseball items that

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used to be available only
locally can be obtained via
multiple Internet sites. And
Cooperstown shirts and hats
and other souvenirs can be
found at Target and WalMart.
“This is much more rare
than a Mickey Mantle bat,”
said Jeff, surveying such a
cornucopia – a Coke button
sign, a Mack truck ashtray
topped with a small carving
of the company’s signature

A couple of years ago,
Jeff had rented that wooden
building – formerly Diastole furniture – on Route 28
about a half-mile north of
Fly Creek’s blinking light,
and was using it for storage.

Last summer, as the inventory grew, the brothers put
8-10 neon signs out front,
and guys (yes, mostly guys)
starting pulling into the
parking lot to take a look,
Please See MAN CAVE, b5

bulldog, and a wall of neon
signs – that it was hard to
tell what exactly he was
comparing the bat to.
One piece Matthew
particularly values in the
Richfield Springs locale
was a “Stop Ahead” sign.
The raised letters – today,
they are flush – signify it’s
a vintage item. “I picked it
up on the side of the road,”
he said. The brothers have
1,200 items in all, including 100 neon signs, many
displayed against the store’s
bare brick wall.

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and looking led to buying.
That put the brothers in high
gear, scouring tag sales for items
that fit their niche. Jeff happened
on one yard sale and made the
owner an offer for everything,
loaded up his pickup and drove
off. And the two recognize they
have an unusual talent for this.
“A lot of people in life have
never bought an item with the
intention of selling it,” said
Matthew. Whenever these two
brothers see something they like,
even if the owner doesn’t know
it’s for sale, they’re unafraid to
ask, “Would you sell that to me?”
If the answer comes back – “What
will you pay for it?” – they know
they’ve got a deal.
“I’ve got to know what they
think it’s worth. I have to know
what condition it’s in. I have to
know if I can sell it,” the younger
sibling said. Antiques might be
listed in a catalogue, which sets a
price. “With this stuff, you have

pants. “She gave me the money.
No questions asked.”
“Why do you want this? Is it a
gift?” he asked the customer.
“I worked at a bar for 20 years,”
she replied. “This was the sign I
turned over and on every night.”
Matthew concluded, “I gave her
something back – what must have
been a fond memory.”
Such examples underscore, the
market is in flux. “I buy stuff, put
it in the closet. Two months later
it’s worth 20 percent more,” Jeff
said.
As the stuff continued to pile
up, the brothers – the collection
amounts to 1,200 items – ran out
of space in the Fly Creek building and discovered that renting a
first-floor store in The Garfield,
one of the blocks renovated by
Jay Bernhardt, Richfield Spring’s
former redeveloper, was cheaper
than renting a storage unit.
So, over the winter, after
working all day for his brother
in Cooperstown, Matthew got to

to have a perceived value.”
One day, for example, a woman
drove up.
“I want to buy that sign,” she
said, pointing at a Busch neon
sign.
“I’m thinking to myself,” said
Matt, “what should I charge?”
$145, he concluded, seat of the

work on his future store, stripping the floors, hanging lights and
painting. It opened in mid-March.
Jeff opened the second store in
mid-April.
The temptation was to harvest
stuff from throughout Central
New York and sell it online. For
instance, a Coke button sign will
sell $150 out of the store, but can
bring $250-300 if sold through the
Web. While 75 people may go
through a store on a given day, a
Web site can easily get 1,000 hits.
Still, the Fosters are people people. They want to engage customers, to describe their stuff, perhaps
even to dicker. Besides, “no one
wants to sit behind a monitor all
day,” Matthew said.
Both brothers say they were
inspired their love of man cave
memorabilia by their father.
For Matthew, it goes back to
his first Christmas, when dad
James, now 73, of Youngstown,
Ohio, bought him a train set.
Youngstown is home to the

Whodunit Features Fracking, Beer-Food Pairings
MYSTERY/From B1
I’ll be right back in front
of the computer, telling
myself “just one little
paragraph!””
That’s husband Glenn,
author of “Murder on
Route 66,” who is also
working on his own
sequel. Last summer, he
took the book on the road
for signings and readings all along the famed
highway.
“Poisoned Pairings”
welcomes back “Deadly Draught”
sleuth and brewery owner Hera
Knightsbridge to solve the murder of a
student hired to set up for a beer-andfood-pairing dinner. In solving the
case, Hera has to confront religious
leaders, grieving families and a gas
company bent on fracking the But-

ternuts Valley Diehl calls
home.
“A lot of my friends are
trying to read it as a political statement,” she said.
“All I’m trying to do is
write a mystery. An author
wants her book to be judged
on the basis of the writing,
not the political agenda.”
Though not one for
outlines, Diehl admits she
might have to construct one
for her next novel, which
she says will be a black-humor murder mystery. “Someone asked
me how I remembered all the plot
twists and turns, but I’ve gotten pretty
good at it – I don’t think I’ve left any
loose threads.”
To promote her work, Diehl’s been
discussing, signing and giving interviews with various writing blogs. “If

someone asked me if they could interview me for a letter to their mother, I’d
do it!” she joked.
On Thursday, May 10, she gave a
talk at the Village Library of Cooperstown on the business of mystery writing. “Someone always asks if there’s
a lot more small publishers, and the
answer is yes and no – there are a lot
of small presses, but a lot of them are
going under. You just can’t predict.”
The other question she gets is how
to become a writer. “I tell them you’ve
got to write and write and keep writing
– that’s what keeps the creative juices
flowing.”
“There are times when I feel down
in the dumps,” she confided. “But I do
feel really optimistic. I love my characters. I love being a writer. I love
what I do. There’s no other choice
– I’m going to keep going down this
road.”

nation’s biggest swap meet, so the
boy was initiated early into the
Brotherhood of Stuff.
Much of what’s swapped is auto
related, and Matthew’s first car,
his father’s 1965 GTO – Hugger
Orange and Plum Crazy – “made
me feel part of a club.”
He got a business degree from
Kent State, then spent a couple
of years as a tech with 3D Vision
in Solon, Ohio. His brother Jeff,
12 years older and a graduate of
Rome Catholic High, had been on
the Cooperstown retail scene since
1992, and the younger man soon
joined him.
It’s uncanny to see the two
together: Two sides of a doubledheaded coin. Matt looks up to
Jeff, and Jeff takes pride in Matt’s
accomplishments and merchandising derring-do.
“People look at it as a business,” said Jeff. “But, in the end,
it’s what fills up the time and
makes you happy.”
Matthew concurred.

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